Benjamin Britten News

A pair of the musicians join the North Carolina Symphony next month for a colorful concert program, "Firebird." Led by guest conductor Joana Carneiro and featuring soloist Johannes Moser on cello, the orchestra performs the 1945 version of Stravinsky's legendary Firebird Suite, alongside wartime music by English composers Benjamin Britten and ... (more)

After the storm and fury of Peter Grimes , whose sea-tossed music and psychologically truthful and damaged characters were heralded as a new era in English opera, composer Benjamin Britten , for his next stage work, went toward the simple but elegant.

Although maestro Fabio Mechetti will remain with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra for part of the 2013-14 season, next season will be the last season for which he is fully engaged in planning and conducting.

The School of Music is partnering with the Augustana College Choir, Quad City Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Boy Choir , Gutersloh Boy Choir, and the Detmold Hochschule fur Musick in Germany to perform Benjamin Britten's stirring "War Requiem." Students are studying the work's historical and artistic relevance through their coursework, dialog, ... (more)

A pair of the music world's fastest rising stars joins the North Carolina Symphony next month for a colorful concert program, "Firebird." Led by guest conductor Joana Carneiro and featuring soloist Johannes Moser on cello, the orchestra performs the 1945 version of Stravinsky's legendary Firebird Suite, alongside stirring wartime music by English ... (more)

Just weeks before he took the helm as the Seattle Symphony's music director last September, conductor Ludovic Morlot already had a notion of what he'd be doing in his 2012-13 season.

A pair of the musicians join the North Carolina Symphony next month for a colorful concert program, "Firebird." Led by guest conductor Joana Carneiro and featuring soloist Johannes Moser on cello, the orchestra performs the 1945 version of Stravinsky's legendary Firebird Suite, alongside wartime music by English composers Benjamin Britten and ... (more)